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='strcls'>*no allegiance was invented='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> no cult developed
they are gloomy, their shadow dark,
no light is in their bodies,
ever they slink along covertly,
walk not up="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right,
from their claws drips bitter gall,
their footprints are (full of) evil venom.
(from ='lgc'>[more primitive='qstn'>?='lgc'>]) d="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> fascination
the shivers and chills (of death)
that fritter the sun of things,
spawn of the god of heavens,
spawned on an evil spirit,
the death warrants, be="trms">loved sons of the storm god,
born of the queen of the nether="trms">world,
who were torn out of heaven and hurled from the earth as castoffs,
are creatures of hell, all
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we are not determined, we are engendered
numinous as immanent ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> external habituation='lgc'>: inviting (or magically enforcing) the ="trms">presence of the power within
efforts of such habituation='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•cult dramatic
="lsts lst1">•="trms">fashioning or appropriate divine images
="lsts lst1">•="trms">religious ="trms">literature
="lsts lst1">•temples
='strcls'>*cult drama='lgc'>: the form fills with its content='strcls'>*
="trms">literally re-="trms">present god, ="trms">presenting his external form, (bring about the god's ="trms">presence through ritual re="trms">presentation of him) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> beneficent results for the ="trms">community ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> still works today='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•sacred marriage
="lsts lst1">•yearly lamentations
="lsts lst1">•battle drama (primeval contest for ="trms">world order against the forces of chaos)
="trms">fashioning of images (of the god) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to achive lasting ="trms">presence
="trms">poetry='lgc'>: means of invoking the ="trms">presence of powers ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> we are doing this still='qstn'>?! bad ="trms">poetry='lgc'>]
creative power of the word underlines all mesopotamian (="trms">religious) ="trms">literature
="lsts lst1">•works of praise
="lsts lst1">•works of lament (specialized lamentation-priest ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Sana, ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Ali )
='strcls'>*lament='lgc'>: influencing and swaying the divine heart by reminding the god of ="trms">past happiness, rather than by magically recreating that ="trms">past='strcls'>*
(mesopotamian='lgc'>:) ='strcls'>*temple='lgc'> = house='strcls'>*
(implication between) the divine owner and his house ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> emotional closeness of a human owner and his home ='lgc'>+ the ='strcls'>*closeness of essence='strcls'>* (of being) ='lgc'>--amounting='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to ="trms">embodiment ='lgc'>=/= habituation
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> house='lgc'> = temple='lgc'> = re="trms">presentation of the power that is meant to fill it
(similar to human dwelling) ='strcls'>***house='lgc'> = temple='lgc'> = the place where the owner could be found (or felt)='strcls'>***
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> that god (the owner) was ="trms">present and available
the god's retainers ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> because the temple was god's home, was not only near and approachable, he was involved with the fortunes of the ="trms">community and commited ti maintaining it ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*mesopotamian temple was profoundly awesome='strcls'>* (it carried awesome aura, awesome or angry nimbus هاله)
="prgrph">-the temple was covered with ="trms">loveliness
="prgrph">-the god's private apartment shrouded in darkness ='lgc'>: the dark room (no eye is to see)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">specific closeness of essence ='lgc'>+ the power inhabiting it
="trms">authoritative revelation
know what was “the proper thing”
house mountain
house rising sun
house causing light
he who issues forth from the thriving...
ancient ='lgc'>=='qstn'>? ancient to us ='lgc'>='lgc'>~=='qstn'>? ancient to them
there is no living cultural tradition that connects us with mesopotamia
immediate unanalyzed total reactions (='qstn'>?)
false meanings jar, stop, and lead no further
older elements (seemingly unchanged) come to mean something quite ="trms">different, have been ="trms">interpreted to fit into a new ="trms">system of meanings
="trms">religious ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•spiritual core in ="trms">phenomena
="lsts lst1">•rulers
="lsts lst1">•parents
='lgc'>[and then later='lgc'>] dark age closed down on mesopotamia
many divine wills to the willful whim of a single despot
='strcls'>*major gods became ="trms">natural gods='strcls'>* (identified with narrow national political aspirations)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> barbarization of ='thdf'>the idea of divinity
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(how to take ="trms">seriously) water's ="trms">materiality ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how to think with water (or ='strcls'>*how water means='strcls'>*)='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•water can bring human conceptual life along with it from local to global concerns
="lsts lst1">•='lgc'>[can help us to='lgc'>] go beyond qualities that express some timeless properties
(my point='lgc'>: the experience of fire is as inseparable from that of stone)
='lgc'>[="ppl">Alberti sug="trms">gests='lgc'>] ='strcls'>*to think in terms of the properties of the ="trms">phenomenon ‘rock/water’ as engendered by ="trms">specific, ="trms">embodied practices in this place='strcls'>* (='lgc'>=/= grappling with the ="trms">question of the ="trms">agentive capacities or properties of the rock or water)
='strcls'>***there are many waters (fires, jinns, divs, stones, shadows), not only many meanings of water (fires, jinns, divs, stones, shadows)='strcls'>***
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='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Alberti's brilliant ="trms">response to Strang's ='thdf'>bad idea of universal notions of properties (which is a very common tendency towards ="trms">relationality among artists ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Strang='lgc'>: “common ="trms">material properties of things, and the shared cognitive and ="trms">phenomenological processes through which people ="trms">interact with them, generate recurrent ideas and patterns of engagement in diverse cultural and ="trms">historical contexts”)
to bear on the form and content of an argument about water as='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">material
="lsts lst1">•="trms">social
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> describing ="trms">relations (human and nonhuman) established through water
='strcls'>*what water can do='lgc'>: flow='strcls'>*
="trms">agentive or ="trms">affective capacities of ="trms">materials ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (bad philosophy of flux) flow as a over="trms">generalized model for ="trms">materiality ='lgc'>=/= expanding ="trms">relations water engenders through its properties in particular locations or rivers
='strcls'>*humans are able to shift conceptual scales through reflexivity='strcls'>*
(="ppl">Alberti asking within archaeology='lgc'>:) how to reconcile ="trms">materials and meaning without introducing a re="trms">presentationa="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list logic where meaning is applied to ="trms">matter by a thinking subject='qstn'>? how to show their co-existence without re="trms">sorting to determinism='qstn'>?
now everyone is busy and talking about ='strcls'>*="trms">relationality='strcls'>* than about ='strcls'>*meaning='strcls'>* (='lgc'>=/= ='mywrk'>my work has alwayes been about both, how to take risks in meaning, my ="trms">lecture-performances='lgc'> = adventures of meaning)
="prgrph">-we cannot mearly talk about ="trms">relationality ='lgc'>{quasi-universal experience of properties ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> commonalities of meanings across time and culture='lgc'>}, the ="trms">question of meaning remains ='lgc'>--="ppl">Alberti='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how are we to think about non-arbitrary ="trms">categories, meanings and values without recourse to universal properties='qstn'>? how ="trms">different meanings can adhere to the same substances='qstn'>?
="trms">materials (water, parasite, etc.) lend themselves to conceptual innovation
often things are willed away (not by a more ="trms">agentive segment of the population ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="trms">paranoiac understanding='lgc'>], but) due to the attraction of other kinds of work elsewhere
(how not to) think of the entire ="trms">phenomenon as one in which properties become determinate (='lgc'>~ scheme transfer) ='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> properties are imminent in ="trms">embodied human engagement with that ="trms">world ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ ="ppl">="ppl">Baradian='lgc'>: there is no such thing as a property that belongs to an independent object='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•body may be the first tool
="lsts lst1">•properties (or potentials ='lgc'>[="nms">ajayeb style='qstn'>?='lgc'>]) cannot be ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listed
X as ="trms">agent ="trms">presents us, as shadow shows...
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winds
روح ruh, spirit ='lgc'>=/= wind='lgc'>: thermal expansion of air ='lgc'>~ air’s tendency to rarefy and expand under the influence of heat
(recognition of) thermal expansion of air ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> motor of global atmospheric circulation
explaining winds ='lgc'>--Borrelli='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="lsts lst1">•how rational thought could grasp
="lsts lst1">•how divine power descended to earth
pneumatic machines
gears, weights, levers, pulleys
='strcls'>****pre="trms">modern ="trms">natural ="trms">phenomena
='lgc'>--more='lgc'>='lgc'>--> exploring and classifying ='strcls'>*varieties='strcls'>* of things ='lgc'>=/=
='lgc'>--less='lgc'>='lgc'>--> common ='strcls'>*causes='strcls'>* of things
varieties ='lgc'>=/= causes
cause ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>='qstn'>? highly complex ="trms">phenomena
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='lgc'>[-O-='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='lgc'>{t|/='qstn'>?='at'>#$^='prcnt'>%V!='lgc'>='lgc'>~)&^='lgc'>} ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- pre="trms">modern ="trms">science and art today stays here (='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to ="ppl">="ppl">Stewart’s attunement to ="trms">phenomena)
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]navigation='lgc'>: negotiation between the direction one ‘witches’ to ="trms">travel ='and'>& the direction that is ‘possible’ to ="trms">travel ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> wind sense='lgc'>:
temperature
humidity
intensity
regularity
smell
knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of astronomy ='lgc'>+ geography
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wind rose ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (connection between='lgc'>:) celestial ='lgc'>+ astronomical order ='lgc'>+ terrestrial variety (of land ='lgc'>+ living creature)
estimate the speed of the ship
throw a log with a rope attached to it o="trms">verboard, and ="trms">measure how much rope went o="trms">verboard within a given period of time
Pliny the Elder ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">historia ="trms">naturalis
Seneca ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">naturales quaestiones
air has a ="trms">natural power of moving itself ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">agency باد='lgc'>]
='lgc'>}='lgc'><='lgc'>== Seneca’s stoic ="trms">worldview='lgc'>: conceived the cosmic principle of all life and movement (pneuma) as a subtle substance ="trms">pervading everything and giving rise, among other things, to all weather ="trms">phenomena
air='lgc'> = expression of pneuma (alive ='and'>& live-giving)
all weather='lgc'> = manifestations as transmutations of air
(late medieval encyclopedia ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) ='strcls'>*weather='lgc'> = a kind of alchemy of air='strcls'>*
(late medieval wind diagrams ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) wind='lgc'>: cosmic divine powers blowing from the celestial sphere ="trms">onto earth
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="ppl">Aristotle ='lgc'>+ Albertus Magnus ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> explanation of the ="trms">nature and o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin of winds in Renaissance meteorological works
air and were then dragged along by the circular movement of the celestial spheres so that they ended up moving horizontally
hot and dry exhalations
aeolipila='lgc'>: a hollow ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metal sphere (shaped like the face of Aeolus) with a single tiny hole in it
air possessed a force (“vis”) that heat could awaken
16th century ='lgc'>--increase='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">interest in ="trms">systematic explanation of meteorological ="trms">phenomena
='at'>#workshop on wind ="trms">poetry
epic battle, ="trms">systems moving air, ="trms">agency,
feature of Renaissance thought ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='thdf'>the idea of ='strcls'>*a middle instance (neither fully corporal nor fully incorporeal) ="trms">intervening between ="trms">matter and soul='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'>+ fire as ="trms">intermediator='lgc'>] ='lgc'>~ spiritus, pneum, quintessence ='lgc'>~ fire or air
...in schematic abstract structure of body-spirit-soul, spirit is somewhere in between
spirit='lgc'>: air-like substance
air='lgc'>: preferred vehicle of spirit (conveyed the breath if life ='lgc'>+ ='strcls'>*used by demonic spirits as a means to produce ="trms">material effects='strcls'>*)
='strcls'>*spirit='lgc'>: celestial o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin to the “innate heat” (calidum innatum) of living creatures
effects of solar heat on air ='lgc'>: act of vitalization
pneuma of the stoics ='lgc'>+ astral body of Neoplatonic philosophy ='lgc'>+ medical spirits of Galenic medicine ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>==>
="lsts lst1">•Renaissance
="lsts lst1">•(christian notion of) Holy Ghost
="lsts lst1">•='thdf'>the idea of close connection between wind and divine power (in Bible)
(in alchemical view) spirits were somehow connected ti air ='lgc'><='lgc'>== quintessences were often separated from raw substances in the form of vapours
="nms">="nms">ajayebnameh ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ="trms">natural magic
='strcls'>*kinds of ="trms">natural motions='strcls'>*
="lstsrd">1. avoidance of avacum='lgc'>: from the form of a portion of air, when it does not want to be either expanded further or separated (from other ="trms">matter). ="trms">horror vacui ='lgc'>--kinetic='lgc'>='lgc'>--> motion was regarded as due to a property of a ="trms">specific part of the machine
="lstsrd">2. resistance to ="trms">excessive compression='lgc'>: the form of basic ="trms">matter should not become less that what is ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right for it
="lstsrd">3. the tendency of heavy things to descend and of light things to rise
air='lgc'> = vital spirit that joins things together, resounding spirit if the ="trms">world ="trms">instrument
Paraceksian theory of aerial niter
(an active principle) aerial version of earthly gunpowder - ="trms">responsible for life, combustion, thunder, lightning, (some) illnesses
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> connecting the activity of air ='lgc'>+ life ='lgc'>+ weather ="trms">phenomena
wind='lgc'>: (='strcls'>***in its irreducible qualitative variety='strcls'>***) expression of cosmic spirit ='lgc'>+ محرک باعث a motive force to be accurately estimated
منجنیق ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ="trms">geometry هندسه ='strcls'>*pneumatic engineering='strcls'>* ='lgc'>: distinction between moving and moved components ='lgc'>==evoke='lgc'>='lgc'>==> motive forces
elaborated pneumatic machines
mechanical clocks
tension of strings
='strcls'>*wind ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> celestial influences='strcls'>*
(Cardano regarded) expansion and contraction of air as ="trms">symmetrical ="trms">phenomena, both consisting a source of motive forces
="prgrph">-in the universe the element air had the function of receiving and conveying fiery celestial influences on earth providing health and wellbeing fir living creatures
Telesion (1509-1588)
soul and spirit identified with each other as a very subtle ="trms">material substance ="trms">pervading all bodies and making them capable of sensing and reacting to rach other with pleasure or pain
='strcls'>*(man’s) immortal soul did not play any role in determining ="trms">natural ="trms">phenomena='strcls'>*
innate heat of living bodies
wind='lgc'>: humid vapours flowing through the air
thinness of wind vapours
16th century
expiration and inspiration of the lungs
Holy Spirit is expressed in the ="trms">nature of winds
="trms">interest in wind and weather was kindled by reports reaching Europe from the East and West Indies about hitherto unknown meteorological ="trms">phenomena عجایب
orderly ma="trms">jesty of God ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> encyclopedism about the universe ='lgc'>+ an analogue of a ="trms">memory ="trms">system
Jean Bodin
firm believer in and opponent of demonic magic
theater of the whole ="trms">nature universe ="trms">naturae theatrum
reason of wind (ratio ventorum)='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•sun
="lsts lst1">•impulse (impulsus) of the angels or demons
sphere of sacrobosco
De sphaera mundi
(On the Sphere of the ="trms">World, pre-Copernican astronomy)
...our sublunar ="trms">world
gunpowder theory of thunder ⛈
compact earthly ="trms">matter from underground whose expansion with expansion so fast that it moves large masses of air, like “salniter in fire or gunpowder which has caught fire”
visualization
making air visible
inverted glass experiment
linking thermal expansion ='and'>& contraction of pure air to wind formation (Cardano)
(under the influence of) celestial fire ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> air (could become alive and active) acquiring motive force
on the transmutations of air
(typical of 16th century) steering the ="trms">religious significance of the study of ="trms">nature
spirit='lgc'>: a cosmic subtle substance, both recipient ='lgc'>+ vehicle of celestial influences ='lgc'>==allow='lgc'>='lgc'>==> elements to transmute into each other (='lgc'>+ meteorological ="trms">phenomena)
(Drebbel’s favourite cosmic spirit='lgc'>:) fire='lgc'> = clearest of all elements ad top of the hierarchical order of elements (fire, air, water, earth), clarifying the other elements ='lgc'>[such as Siavash='lgc'>]
(for Della Porta='lgc'>:) meteorological ="trms">phenomena='lgc'> = transmutations of the air (in ="trms">literal sense)
air becoming thinner or ="trms">thicker ='lgc'>==rise='lgc'>='lgc'>==> winds, thunder, clouds, rain, snow, linking heaven ='lgc'>+ earth ='lgc'>+ bringing life to all animated creatures
(Della Porta conceived of) wind in vita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic terms
...winds rising up from the mouth of the retort (boiling water)
how heat endowed air with motive force
(Drebbel ="trms">presenting to the public) perpetuum mobile ='lgc'>: expansion and contraction of air (which he claimed) de="trms">monstrated the force behind all movement and life
weatherglass (='lgc'>+ aeolipila) ='lgc'>--de="trms">monstrated='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>****highly nontrivial ="trms">natural ="trms">phenomena='strcls'>**** (transformation of energy from heat into mechanical motion)
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(="nms">ajayeb’s) theory about the o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigins of the wind
Galileo ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> earth's rotation ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (='lgc'><='lgc'>--evidence='lgc'>--) wind
Bacon ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> exhalations together with air ='lgc'>[rarefaction and expansion of air / exhalation drawn up by sun='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> wind
Fludd (meteorological cosmica) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> wind='lgc'>: principal meteorological ="trms">phenomenon (princeps meteororum) and closest to God
“wind is an aerial spirit, of middle consistence, inspired or animated by the breath of Iehova, which he extracts from his treasure-case ="trms">according to his will, to effect either a punishment or a bene="trms">diction”
="lsts lst1">•angels='lgc'>: efficient cause of winds (in borg macro- and micro="trms">cosmos)
="lsts lst1">•(changes in the air ='lgc'>--cor="trms">responded='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) temperament of living creatures ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> wind
="lsts lst1">•pulse of the heart caused by the spirit of life
="lsts lst1">•thermal expansion
="lsts lst1">•vaporization (='lgc'>+ contraction) of air
="lsts lst1">•pneumatics
“wind='lgc'> = thermal expansion ='and'>& contraction of air” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a vita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic-alchemical Rosicrucian conception of meteorology and ="trms">cosmology ='lgc'>=/= ="ppl">Descartes’ mechanical-corpuscular view of ="trms">nature ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{wind ='lgc'><='lgc'>== vapours drawn up from earth and water by solar heat (vapours expanded when heated and when they encountered the op="trms">position of other vapours clouds or mountains they ended up escaping in the one free direction)
="lsts lst1">•vapour='lgc'>: (made out of) small corpuscles together with even smaller particles filling the gaps between the corpuscles
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Froidmont ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> wind='lgc'>: (made of) dry and hot exhalations ='lgc'>=/= animated (as the stoics dream)
='lgc'>{winds flow towards Earth because of their gravity, like streams and rivers in their beds='lgc'>} gravity ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> wind ='lgc'>=/= (direct expression of) celestial power and caused by God’s angels
scorched by rays and reflexes of the sun
="trms">denser
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